the .kde directory will always get created if it doesn't exist. That's where KDE stores your settings and preferences and all the hidden stuff.

There must be something causing it to freeze at that point though... Did you change any of the preferences, appearance or anything after the desktop shows up?

Try deleting the dir again, logging out and back in, not change anything, then log out and back in... see if it still freezes.

I delete the dir, but I still can't get by the post-sign-in screen. The first icon appears clearly, then the others appear dimly and don't "attach," it seems. I haven't changed anything that I can think of.

IF you deleted it once and were then able to get to a desktop, that's good news. As M0E-lnx pointed out, that gets recreated by KDE if it is not already present. Try going into /etc/skel/ and rename the ".kde" to ".kde.old". Reboot the machine and see if you are able to get to a desktop more than once. Let us know, thanks.

This is a repost from the Announcements area, where it was wrongly posted. Sorry.I just installed 6.0 Soho, including CD2. I can't boot: The process goes as far as the last icon after signin (is that the desktop?) and stops. I have installed twice, tried to start x as both user and root. I have to turn off the computer and turn on again.I have a PentiumIV machine with an Intel graphics card, 512MB RAM. I have Vector 6.0KDE on another partition, and it works perfectly.

I'm having a similar problem but with KDE. (By the way, the install was just fine). When I attempt to login as any user, including root, KDE starts showing the icons, but just before it gets to the last one, the screen goes black and the X server seems to restart. And then, voila, I am back to the login prompt. I then went to failsafe and deleted my .kde folders in both /root and /home/user and tried again. No luck. Then I started up gslapt from the failsafe xterm and downloaded ICEWM. Other than a couple of missing icons, this started up just fine. There are no errors that I can detect in /var/log/Xorg.0.log.

Several pre-releases back I was having difficulty with the down arrow and end keys (not those on the numpad) not working intermittently and this was again the case with SOHO Final. One fix that was suggested was to delete ~/.Xmodmap. This seemed to help but only temporarily. I then noted that most of my issues were in a console after I would su to root. Even after exiting root back to user as long as that console was open those two key did not work. The fix I then instituted was to comment out the two lines in .Xmodmap for root and user instead of deleting a file that just gets recreated. It would seem that the default US keymap redirects keycode 115 and 116 to F15 and F16 respectively which doesn't send the down arrow or end sequences. I'm have never needed F15 or F16 in fact F13 or F14 either. Anyway, this works (for the past 24 hours or so) but I've not rebooted my box either (uptime almost 8 days).

As for the overall feel of the final release: I still can't load it on my laptop due to xorg's nVidia GeForce Go 7150M non-support but it works wonderfully on my desktop. I just need a PAE enabled kernel to see all 6Gb of RAM (which I think there are others out there who would like that too until a 64-bit VL is available). Perhaps I'll work on that if I get a bit of time to do so.

Thank you very much dev team.

Mike

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I'm having a similar problem but with KDE. (By the way, the install was just fine). When I attempt to login as any user, including root, KDE starts showing the icons, but just before it gets to the last one, the screen goes black and the X server seems to restart. And then, voila, I am back to the login prompt. I then went to failsafe and deleted my .kde folders in both /root and /home/user and tried again. No luck. Then I started up gslapt from the failsafe xterm and downloaded ICEWM. Other than a couple of missing icons, this started up just fine. There are no errors that I can detect in /var/log/Xorg.0.log.

There were no other errors I could track down. There are several claims which I have not verified. First to check if this is the case, change your xorg.conf file to include:

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Section "ServerFlags"Option "AIGLX" "off"EndSection

Section "Extensions"Option "Composite" "Disable"EndSection

Second, that this particular problem is most common on Via s3g Unichrome IGP KM400/KN400/P4M800[S3 Unichrome] chipsets (which is more, or less what I have on this machine). Third, that this may be a problem in the mesa library.

I'm going to create a basic xorg.conf file and test to see if the above options work. Currently I'm just using HAL instead (as per the new standard). By the way, I'm using the VESA driver at the current time, not OpenChrome. I will repost with results one way or the other.

What you see above is the entirety of my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. I changed it, logged out from XFCE, logged back in at the KDM screen to KDE, and after a very slow start (this is usual for the first time KDE runs for a user), I got in to my KDE 4.4.2 desktop. After letting Nepomuk do its thing and doing initial starts on some programs, the desktop seems responsive, but nowhere near as fast as XFCE or IceWM. [Old geezer]Back in my day KDE 3.x seemed a bit faster, but that may be me[/Old geezer].

What's the bottom line?1) For some reason (chipset?) KDE4 needs tweaking before it will run on this desktop.2) KDE4 *may* be slower than expected due to the xorg.conf settings.3) There is limited eye-candy due to lack of compositing.4) I'm not sure what we can do about this???

Anyhow, I wanted to offer this up to anyone else who has had these difficulties, and thank the distro team for taking the time to put all this together.

SOHO 6 isn't really made for the ancient machines. On my 2GHz notebook, it works fine as long as I don't over do it with the eye candy (ATI x1250 chipset). For the older machines VL 6 KDE may be a better choice.

SOHO 6 isn't really made for the ancient machines. On my 2GHz notebook, it works fine as long as I don't over do it with the eye candy (ATI x1250 chipset). For the older machines VL 6 KDE may be a better choice.

SOHO 6 RC3 is working splendidly on my 1.3 GHz Celeron, which is quite long in the tooth as computers go. However, I use XFce as my desktop environment, not KDE, simply because I don't like any version of KDE, never have I since I started using Linux years ago. I like using SOHO because it has newer kernel and libraries.

KDE4 hasn't run badly when I've used it under VL6 SOHO. However, I usually use it only as long as I need to for something I can do best under KDE (which is just about nothing). XFce on my computer also runs okay when I use a KDE program, which means KDE libraries are loaded. K3B is the KDE program I use the most and it runs very well indeed. I'm not big on eye candy, can't stand compiz, turn off all KDE effects just so I don't have to look at them on the occasions I may need to run KDE.

One nice thing about Linux desktops is we can customize them the way we want, even to the point of not using the distro's default desktop.--GrannyGeek

SOHO 6 isn't really made for the ancient machines. On my 2GHz notebook, it works fine as long as I don't over do it with the eye candy (ATI x1250 chipset). For the older machines VL 6 KDE may be a better choice.

SOHO 6 RC3 is working splendidly on my 1.3 GHz Celeron, which is quite long in the tooth as computers go. However, I use XFce as my desktop environment, not KDE, simply because I don't like any version of KDE, never have I since I started using Linux years ago. I like using SOHO because it has newer kernel and libraries.

One nice thing about Linux desktops is we can customize them the way we want, even to the point of not using the distro's default desktop.--GrannyGeek

Shake hands! It's just too bad that Gnome is not easily made available for slackware type distros. Not that I use it for a desktop, I am fluxboxer, gnome-panel on occasion, however, gnome has some really good programs.

While I have used Gnome, IceWM, XFCE, XPDE, and all the others, I keep returning to KDE because of its customizability. There's not a doubt that IceWM (for example) uses fewer resources, but the KDE eye candy is, to me, like chocolate: not strictly necessary, but it makes life sweeter.

I don't like KDE but I don't like Gnome, either. XFce4 is my favorite (and I find it very customizable) with IceWM a close second. You can pretty up IceWM with fancier icons and your favorite wallpaper and it does support transparency (or at least looks like it does). That's about as far as I care to go with eye candy.--GrannyGeek

I like gnome. (yes I know.. I said it)... but I hate the default configuration. With that said, I *always* take out the dual panels (hate my menus on the top of the screen, and just the overall gnome menu), configure a single panel, on the bottom, add my hacked version of the mintmenu, couple of launchers, followed by the task bar, pager, notification area, and clock.

The end result is a beautiful panel with a jaw-dropping menu.

I know it's still gnome, and heavy as it is, but... You have to hand it out to those guys, it really does everything... and I mean everything. From printer auto-configure to seemless file sharing with samba, linux, etc. I figured, I have the hardware resources to run it... why not?